The third group looked like they understood what Bolter was talking about. When they showed a slide or quote they would not just read the quote but explain it. They first talked about the writing changing from a papyrus roll (25 ft long) to a codex. Codex is a leather bound book with a pre-numbered amount of pages and introduced mass reading. Bolter describes "illuminated manuscripts at its finest (pg. 79)."Codex gave the sense of closure and with the digital technology that closure is being diminished. They explained that E-books are trying to imitate the physical appearance of the codex.
The encyclopedia was created to store a vast amount of information. Britannica was the first to come out with a series and also the first to come out as an encyclopedia in technology. Internet as a whole became an encyclopedia. People now are thinking that libraries are going to go extinct. Bolter thinks that libraries are going to be around for a while but there is talk of a digital library, in which books are stored in machines.
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